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Bitcoin King (BCK)BCK

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A fork at block 499,999 that planned a later switch to a PoW+DPoS hybrid; its 2018 comparison chart claimed 21.21 million coins.

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The wiki's angle: block 499,999 carried at least three airdrop claims — Bitcoin King, BitcoinStake and Lightning Bitcoin.[2][4]

Contents

  1. Site
  2. Record
  3. References

Site

The archived site, captured on 31 August 2018 and mostly in Chinese, gives a roadmap starting on 2017.12.19 with the fork at height 499999, then a PoW+DPoS consensus change dated 2018.5.31 and fast micro-payments dated 2018.8.31[1]. Its comparison chart lists BCK with a max supply of “21.21 MIL”, SHA256 mining, 10-minute blocks and 8MB blocks[1].

Record

The 2019 fork list gives “fork at 499999” and the repository btcking/btcking, and says it “seems like a waste of my resources to compile/sync/test (sorry)”[2]. Block 499,999 was mined on 18 December 2017 at 18:34:47 UTC[3]. The same list puts BitcoinStake at the same block[2].

References

  1. primaryBitcoin King website, btcking.org (Wayback Machine copy, 31 Aug 2018)
  2. secondary“My list of 43(+3) reviewed Bitcoin forks”, Bitcointalk topic 2777849 (last update 26 Feb 2019) [archived]
  3. primarymempool.space, Bitcoin block 499,999 (header time 2017-12-18 18:34:47 UTC) [archived]
  4. primaryLightning Bitcoin, “About” page with project timeline (Wayback Machine copy, Chinese)

Related

BitcoinStake (BTCS)
A Chinese-language proof-of-stake fork at block 499,999 at 1 BTC = 100 BTCS, with 21 million of 2.121 billion
Lightning Bitcoin (LBTC)
A December 2017 fork at block 499,999 that replaced proof of work with delegated proof of stake, unrelated to
Bitcoin Faith (BTF)
A fork at block 500,000 with 8 MB blocks and a 1% reserve; a 2019 review found it still running even though it
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